WIN wants help for digital conversion in SA & WA
Mar 10
WIN Television is requesting Government help in order to complete the digital conversion in regional South Australia and Western Australia.
WIN owner Bruce Gordon has told The Advertiser that there is “strong support” from the Government to help to take digital services to regional areas
“We are asking the Government for funding to go digital in SA and WA, and they are making very good noises they are going to because they want all the viewers to have access to all the channels,” he said.
“We are looking to the Government to say `you’re going to have to help because we’ll go broke quick enough without having to buy 68 new transmitters for WA to go digital’.”
In order to complete digital conversion, WIN will need infrastructure installed in 68 transmitters and 150 smaller translator sites across Western Australia alone. Gordon says that the extra Government investment is warranted, because the rebate applicable to WIN’s Channel Nine licences in Adelaide and Perth is only $4 million of the near $250 million licence fee rebate announced last month.
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bacco|007 March 10th 2010